The objective of this contest is to give the aspirants an experience of simulative environment of a business startup. Last Year’s B-Plan contest had an overwhelming participation with students from various top B-Schools like IIM-A, IIM-C, IIM-B, IIM-L, XLRI, ISB, FMS, IIT-B, MDI, SPJIMR, NMIMS, to name a few. The unique feature of this contest […]

Participants included students from Pilani, Pune and different educational institutions across the state, working Professionals, prominent faculty from IIM Calcutta and other b-schools, in-house students and even two people from the armed forces. As Laura Parkin, Executive Director, NEN noted, “The NEN IIMC Ascent’07 is a great example of how academia is equipping young people […]

How many applications have you received in last two years of PGPX how many of them made it to the interview stage? In the first year (batch of 2006-07) we received 730 applicants and we called 210 applicants for interview. The final batch size was 60 students. In the second year (batch of 2007-0, we […]

The Post Graduate Diploma in Forest Management (PGDFM) will subsequently be renamed to Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) and depending on the specializations that students choose, they would be awarded PGDM-Environmental Management (PGDM-EM), PGDM-Developmental Management (PGDM-DM) and PGDM-Forest Management (PGDM-FM) degrees, the institute’s Director Prof DK Bandopadhyaya informed PaGaLGuY.com today. The institute is also […]

How do you see Management Education and Business Schools emerging in Delhi and NCR in the next 10 years? There will be an IIM in Delhi/NCR Region. The focus will shift increasingly to executive PGDM and distance education with huge demand from emerging sectors. A few b-schools in Mumbai have been aggressively entering domain-based management […]

Perfetti Van Melle is privately owned company producing and distributing candies and chewing gums in more than 130 countries worldwide. It is the 3rd largest confectionary group in the world and the first to represent in the main Asian market. Employing over 14000 people and operating 32 companies throughout the world, Perfetti Van Melle has […]

Kick-starting this chain of activities is Ascent’07 – a two-day event on July 21 and 22, 2007. In line with the Entrepreneurship Cell’s objective of fostering entrepreneurship on campus, Ascent ’07 would be an A-Z of Entrepreneurship workshop covering all the aspects of Entrepreneurship. The event is a precursor to i2I. The event is being […]

The IIM Calcutta notification in the CAT 2007 bulletin reads, “A candidate (including a reserved category candidate) to be shortlisted for GD and PI for admission to post-graduate programmes should obtain a minimum of 20%, 20% and 10% in ‘quantitative’, ‘logic and data interpretation’ and ‘verbal’ sections respectively.” IIM Calcutta’s Chairman of Admissions Prof Ashish […]

It seems that the absence of certain B-school names accepting the Common Admissions Test (CAT) scores in the online copy of the CAT bulletin released yesterday was assumed as a proof of their exit from the CAT system by a section of the media. Among others, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and […]

The conference, chaired by Pedro Isais, aimed to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society, covering both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects. Broad areas of interest were eGovernance, eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management. The conference saw an overwhelming participation from academicians from renowned institutes such as […]